BARCELONA, Spain, February 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- LifeVibes(TM) MixDJ FX - Which Enables DJ Style Mixing Complete With Professional Sound Effects - Introduced on Mass Market Phone @ Mobile World Congress 2009

NXP Software brings DJing on mobile devices to life with a new LifeVibes product featured in the world's first handset with DJ-style music effects. The LifeVibes MixDJ FX software at the heart of the DJ-ing application lets users create cool effects for a professional DJ sound.

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LONDON, February 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Has Saved Users Over 4 Million Hours - EUR55 Million - in Just Two Years

SpinVox, a global leader in voice-to-content messaging, has today announced that it has converted more than 100 million voice-to-text messages. This number has been achieved in just two years since its service started to be rolled out with carriers around the world.

Mobile World Congress, BARCELONA, February 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Award Underlines Standard-Based Interoperability of Alcatel-Lucent's WiMAX(TM) Rev-e Solution

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has received the WiMAX Forum Certified(TM) seal of approval for the 3.5GHz band version of its WiMAX Rev-e (802.16-2005 standard) compact base station. This achievement is recognition of the high quality and reliability of the company's WiMAX(TM) equipment.

LONDON, February 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Answers Demand for Voice Conversion Services From Web-Based Technology Developers Wanting to Build Speech 2.0 Applications

SpinVox, a global leader in voice to content messaging, has announced its intention to release SpinVox Create, an open API (Application Programming Interface) to VMCS, the world's largest commercial speech platform.

SpinVox Create is a response to an increasing demand for voice conversion services from technology developers who recognise that a speech interface enables the most natural form of communication and who want to build Speech 2.0 applications and are looking for best-in-class open products.

LONDON, February 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Six Languages on Five Continents and New Hires in Europe and Latin America Confirm SpinVox Global Ambition.

SpinVox, the founder and global leader in Voice-to-Content messaging, has announced the launch today of Portuguese and Italian as the fifth and sixth languages in its multi-lingual service offering, as it targets the expanding Brazilian, Portuguese and Italian telecoms markets.

SpinVox is now the world's largest private speech technology company and conceived, designed and built the world's first Voice-to-Text messaging service which is already available in Spanish, English, French and German via 13 carriers - such as Alltel (Verizon), Movistar Chile, Vodafone Spain, Telstra and Vodacom - on five continents.

SINGAPORE, February 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- OAG's Timetable and Flight Status Content Enables Searches on Commercial Airline Flights for NAVITIME Customers

Global flight information and data solutions company OAG (Official Airline Guide, www.oagcorporate.com), part of UBM Aviation ( www.ubmaviation.com), announced today it is the content provider for the new commercial airline flights travel option on the latest release of the NAVITIME mobile GPS navigation and route search service for business and leisure travellers.

OAG has partnered with NAVITIME JAPAN CO., LTD., to give customers the GPS navigation service easy access to flight schedules and the latest updates on flight arrivals and departures.

PARIS, February 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Orange today announces it will be the first operator to offer the world's first Touch Watch phone (LG G910) in Europe, bringing customers the latest in breakthrough mobile technology in this tiny, wearable device from LG Electronics. This market-first innovation, available from flagship stores across Orange's European footprint later this year, will give Orange customers the chance to enjoy a whole new way of communicating.

"When people live where the weather is colder and they are more covered with clothing, they depend on their diet for their vitamin D," reports Raymond Hobbs, MD.  Dr. Hobbs’ study in the January/February issue of Endocrine Practice reveals that Detroit-area Arab-American women who wear the hijab, modest dress with headscarf, receive approximately half of the vitamin D of their western-dressed Arab-American neighbors.  

BARCELONA, Spain, February 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry leaders call for governments to focus on mobile broadband stimulus

Mobile World Congress -- At the GSMA's Leadership Summit, bringing together 400 CEOs, government ministers and officials, industry leaders today stressed the unique role that broadband, specifically mobile broadband, can play as an economic stimulus. Those leaders called for governments to support the rollout of mobile broadband services to drive economic growth.

LONDON, February 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite, Scotland's largest trade union, has today kept-up the pressure on the SNP over the policy not to consider all viable and established low carbon technologies. The UK Government will press the case that there should be a balanced energy approach including renewables, clean coal and nuclear.

Jim Murphy MP, the Scottish Secretary, is expected to criticise the Scottish Government's nuclear energy policy in a keynote speech at the Public Information Materials Exchange 2009 conference in Edinburgh, organised by the European Nuclear Association. At an Energy Conference at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh last week organised by Unite and Scottish Engineering, the Energy Minister Mike O'Brien also criticised the SNP's energy policy.